AdWare or Stuborn Pop-up?

go to add remove programs and remove all not productive programs.

also go do www.download.com and download ad aware 6.0. http://tinyurl.com/k187

and remove all spyware, it came probably with another program.

Leopold

Hi

Virus protection - Norton

Worm protection _ Spywarenuker

Trojan protection - Spywarenuker

Adaware protection - Spywarenuker

Firewall - Zone Alarm Pro

fred

I have been battling a similar situation for the past 2 weeks... and I've "cleaned" my PC 3 times to the point where I could actually get to a website w/o being redirected to a porn site... however, within days, my system would revert to the problem you describe. For "temporary" remedy, I installed Adaware (I hear that SPYBOT, also free, is good too) to clean out part of the infestation... mainly the program ISTBAR, IST, and ISTBAR services. I used the paths listed via the Adaware program to manually clean out the program files and the 70-100+ entries in the registry. You may also want to go to the McAfee website, Virus Information and type in "blastr" to get more specific information for removal (if this is the same as your problem). As I've mentioned before, my PC has not stayed clean dispite my installation of a firewall and the latest McAfee Dat files. I run the Adaware program frequently (sometimes 3 times, rebooting in between) to get rid of as many spyware/malware as possible. Hope this helps. Good luck.

If you have system backup/restore enabled it should be disabled before you will be able to completely purge the worm or spywear.

System restore will just keep putting it back.

Good Luck Lee